In search of my father in Nicobar

Friends

As you all know I was on Nicobar Islands for search of my father. But unfortunately he couldn't be traced out. Grief is there but I have decided to be strong and stable. Here are some of the pictures of the place, where my father went. and from where he is missing. We are still praying for his safe return. But Looking at the devastation we feel that in front of the nature man is just a small thing.

These are some of the pictures which will tell the real story of the place. This place is Chingam Village in Greater Nicobar Islands. It is situated at Point 43 and India's worst hit point i.e. Indira Point is Just mere 7 km from this place. As in picture you can c the devastated land. Just a 45 days before it was a virgin forest. the land has never seen the sun. Mighty trees dwelled in that land. and the home to shompens( tribals of chingam village) Now the only thing left from that village is the 4 dogs and a pig. The beach which you can see is the fresh one just born 45 days before. with very less dense sand and choppers had problem in landing in that area. Trees you can see how mighty they are and we can imagine the power required for make such tree flat. there are many which are just cut like a axe in one shot.

People say It happened just within 5-10 minutes after the earthquake shock. Entire beach land was drained out and suddenly water started rising. it started to encroach the land and that time people had seen the mighty wall of water coming. I had seen the imprints of the wave on trees upto 35-40 ft height. Telling I reached till here.
The topography has completely changed. This place was famous for its long circular beach with the river coming in it. and home to egg hatching of various kinds of tortoises now no beach is left there. and birthplace for them is now gone forever. River Galathia famous for crocodiles used to be small rivulet but due to this impact it has now converted into great river.

So friends, I never bothered about such incidences like earthquake, floods, blizzards, cyclones had a feeling that we are always in safe world. but denstiny can take us anywhere and anything can happen at any time to any one I have learned this lesson of life but in a hard way. Where pune is where cambell bay is, one of the remotest place in india. and that to on that point 41 of that islands. No one could have imagined that these people could have been there and on such a disastrous day.

I thank All those who has helped me in carrying out this mission. esp to Col Suresh Rege my ex boss and Col Thorat. because of their contacts in Army I could reach such a difficult place. To Cdr Milind Patil and Major Nagrajan who helped us enormously in this and to Col Sawant with whose's Meticulous planning we didnt had to face any problems in mission carry out. I also thanks numerous wel wishers who still are praying for my father to come back and made us believe that. humanity is still exist in such pragmatic world too. And we had experianced no one's sympathy was artificial and everyone tried to help us in whatever way they could.

So friends happened is happened. We are human beings, Our real strenght is to carry on. Whatever happens Show Must Go On.